Ferté-Macé

Ferté-Macé is a common French, located in the department of the Orne and the area Basse-Normandie.

Its inhabitants are called Fertois.

Geography

  • Brook the Moor.
  • Forest of Ferté Macé.
  • Great water level, with base of leisure.

History

  • medieval City, the Étymologie of its name is Forteresse Mathieu.
  • In 1386, a criminal trial with Falaise condemns to dead a quite particular assassin, a pig having eaten an infant of the Souvet mason in Ferté-Macé
  • Grand center of manufacture of fabrics at the 19th century.
  • Railway between Briouze and Couterne.

Administration

Communes of the Community of communes

  • Antoigny

  • Couterne
  • Sauvagère
  • Lonlay-the-Shard
  • Magny-the-Desert
  • Méhoudin
  • Saint-Maurice-of-Desert
  • Saint-Michel-of-Andaines the

Demography

Economy

The city has an antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Alençon.

Places and monuments

  • Bell-tower of the Romance church.

  • Church Notre Dame of the XIXe century with splendid Stained glasses of XVIe.
  • Town hall towards 1900.
  • Manor of Pogeonnière.
  • Vestiges of the home XVe Finch.

Personalities related to the commune

Specialities

See too

Sources

  • great criminal cases of the Flowering ash , at the Borated one.

External bonds

  • Ferté-Macé

  • www.normandieweb.org
  • Ferté-Macé on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Ferté-Macé on the site of INSEE
  • Ferté-Macé on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Ferté-Macé on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane of Ferté-Macé on Mapquest

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